Burial-casket.



No. 887,019. PATENTED MAY 5, 1908.

A, s. SEIDEL. BURIAL GASKET.

APPLIOATION FILED HOV. 20,1907? WITNESSES I barren srarns PATENT orsion.

ALFRED S. .SEI'DEL, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE SANITARY BURIAL CASKET COMPANY, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

BURIAL-CASKET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 5, 1908.

To a-ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that ILALFRED S. SnrDEL, citizen of the United States, residing at Readino, in the county of Berks and State of PennsyIvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Burial-Caskets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to 1m rovements in burial caskets and the object o the invention is to provide a casket of glass, reinforced by a metallic frame, or in other words, a metallic casket having a glass lining.

The invention consists of a skeleton frame, inclosing a rectangular body or box made up of a plurality of plates of glass, cureu together and forming a lining for said frame.

The invention is intended as an im rovement on the patent issued to Char es F. Eagelman, No. 842,830, under date. of January 29th, 1907. a

The invention is more fully described in the following specification and clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:-

Figure 1' is a side elevation of my casket. Fig. 2- is a lan view thereof, with the cover removed. ig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the cover on line 33 of Fig. 1.

The numeral 1 designates the metallic frame. This frame is made with a number of supports or bars 2 for joining together the upper and lower sections 3 and 4 of the frame.

. tect the bottom glass plate.

The bottom frame 4 has a series of cross arms 5 which serve as strengthening sup ports to keep the frame rigid and also to pro- The cover. is also a metallicglass-lined frame having upper member 6 and lower member 10, which are connected at the four corners, and support the glass lates 11 and 12.

The numera 7 designates the side plates, 8

suitably sethe end plates and 9 the bottom plate, all of which are of glass and form a lining for the frame. These plates may be joined together at their meeting edges and to the frame by means of cement q or in any other suitable manner, as may'also the glass lining plates of the cover. The side and end plates may be left transparent if desired, or they may be frosted or otherwise treated if a transparent casket is not wanted. The late in the cover may if desired be only partially so'treated if desired, leaving only a portion thereof transparent near the head. 1

The handles are secured to the uprights in the usual manner and the entire frame may be made either plain or ornamental, as desired.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l 1. A burial casket comprisin a metallic skeleton frame of rectangular form and a glass lining made up of a plurality of plates.

2. Aburial casket comprising a metallic skeleton frame comprising u per and lower longitudinal members, uprig its or sup orts having their opposite ends connector re-' spectively to sea upper and lower members, transverse cross-arms connecting the opposite iongitudinal lower frame members, and 'a glass lining for said frame comprising a plurality of glass plates suitably joined together and to the said frame, and a cover comprisin in 'ts construction a metallic glass-line fram Y In testimony whereof I affix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

.' ALFRED S. SEIDEL.

I/Vitnesses E1). A. KELLY, J. OR. KELLY. 

